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I've been a user of TaskWarrior for a long time, though not always seriously, and I recently started using TimeWarrior with it so that I can keep track of the time that I spend on tasks. This is a tale about how it all went wrong, but because of some really smart choices by the original developers, it all came back in the end.

This one is a full on face-palm of fun: A client recently redirected one site that we didn't host to one that we do. At some point, Googlebot had indexed their old site and had URLs to files on the site, and fetching those URLs took down our site.

Last week we ran in to an issue wherein MySQL stopped allowing logins from several of our user accounts. This post documents how that happened, and what you might need to prevent this issue going forward.

My day job is in the process of replacing TinyMCE with another WYSIWYG editor, Quill. Even once that happens, we'll still be supporting existing clients that use TinyMCE, and those clients will likely never receive the "replacement," but they'll still receive updates.

There are excellent tools available for essentially every programming language allowing you to work with dates as objects, because date logic is hard. But it doesn't have to be, and you can make it easier.

An interesting conversation had in the office HipChat, triggered by comments made by Stephen Fry; it definitely amazed me a little, just how many people we had with very strong opinions on religion. Note: all grammatical and spelling errors are the original authors, and are left here for authenticity.